Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski arrived for an interview with The Associated Press on Sunday in the Lithuanian ...

Cases of soldiers being punished for crimes during the war in Ukraine are rare. Russian forces are usually portrayed as ...

A court in Russian-controlled Ukraine sentenced four Russian soldiers for the death last year of Russell Bentley, a Texas man ...

Looming ominously off the coast of French Guiana in South America, a mere 8.5 miles or 13.76 kilometers away, stands Devil’s Island, or Île Du Diable, as it's known in French. The island's memorable ...

“I feel like a bug trapped in a spider’s web that is too small for the spider to even eat.” This is Alvan’s personal account of his detention in Moshannon Valley Processing Center, a facility in ...

France is planning to build a brand new high-security prison in the Amazon rainforest, near the site of the notorious Devil’s Island penal colony that inspired the 1973 movie “Papillon,” starring ...

(CNN) — France is planning to build a brand new high-security prison in the Amazon rainforest, near the site of the notorious Devil’s Island penal colony that inspired the 1973 movie “Papillon,” ...

[Apologies for more typographical chaos than usual in this edition of Roaming Charges, which was largely written and assembled by iPhone after the 8-week-old Australian shepherd chewed her way through ...

The parents of US ballerina Ksenia Karelina have thanked President Trump after she was released from a Russian penal colony following a prisoner exchange with Vladimir Putin’s security service.

Outside a Russian prison gate and stained concrete walls, a 14-year-old girl in a baggy beige sweater with her small dog on leash hugged her father, moments after his release. Tears filled Masha ...

Jonathan Lewis does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Four officers at a maximum security prison in Russia were killed after inmates who identified themselves as affiliated to ISIS took several staff hostage, Russian state media reported.Russian special ...